- Mme. Elaine Destin: Your fortune is a refreshment after telling a hundred bored old ladies their future is nothing but boredom.
- Paladin: I guess I better send for the cavalry.
- Mme. Elaine Destin: Ah, but this one will help you. The drowned sailor, the Venetian, he'll help you.
- Paladin: Elaine, you really believe this, don't you? A drowned sailor in the desert to help me against the Reaper Death.
- [He laughs]